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Aphorisms of justification, with their explication annexed wherein also is opened the nature of…Aphorismes of justification, with their explication annexed wherein also is opened the nature of…
Aphorisms of justification, with their explication annexed wherein also is opened the nature of the covenants, satisfaction, righteousness, faith, works, &c. : published especially for the use of the church of Kidderminster in Worcestershire / by their unworthy teacher Ri. Baxter.Aphorismes of justification, with their explication annexed wherein also is opened the nature of the covenants, satisfaction, righteousnesse, faith, works, &c. : published especially for the use of the church of Kederminster in Worcestershire / by their unworthy teacher Ri. Baxter.
Hague: printed by Abraham Brown, 1655
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
If yet besides all this, any will maintain that we fulfilled the precepts of the law in Christ; or that his fulfilling of them as such, is our righteousness, let them show me solidly what need we have of Christs sufferings, and let them answer what is said to the contrary by the forementioned Authors; and I shall quickly yield.
If yet besides all this, any will maintain that we fulfilled the precepts of the law in Christ; or that his fulfilling of them as such, is our righteousnesse, let them shew me solidly what neede we have of Christs sufferings, and let them answer what is said to the contrary by the formentioned Authors; and I shall quickly yeeld.
To conclude, that God accepteth this righteousness of satisfaction as being equivalent to that of obedience (though obedience be first in the law, and the precept the principal part) and so that he is as well pleased with us as if we had obeyed: may appear from the end & nature of satisfactory punishment. For the penalty of a perfect just law is supposed to be such, that it will make a perfect compensation or satisfaction for all the wrong we have done, to the law-maker or the public: so that being paid or suffered, we must needs in point of innocency be in statu quo prius. I know some object thus, If a thief be burnt in the hand and so the law satisfied, yet he hath lost his credit, and will not be taken or trusted for an honest man.
To conclude, that God accepteth this righteousnesse of satisfaction as being equivalent to that of obedience (though obedience be first in the law, and the precept the principall part) and so that he is as well pleased with us as if we had obeyed: may appear from the end & nature of satisfactory punishment. For the penalty of a perfect just law is supposed to be such, that it will make a perfect compensation or satisfaction for all the wrong we have done, to the law-maker or the publique: so that being paid or suffered, we must needs in point of innocency be in statu quo prius. I know some object thus, If a theef be burnt in the hand and so the law satisfied, yet he hath lost his credit, and will not be taken or trusted for an honest man.